Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 239 317
Rank change year-on-year -96 +78 -5
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 613 658 650
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.32% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.50% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 297 280 323
10th Percentile £36,550 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £57,882 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +3.21% +3.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,813 £89,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,304
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.27% -2.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -106 540 £60,000 -16.96% 822
London -21 335 £68,000 -15.00% 571
Work from Home -5 225 £60,000 -14.29% 298
UK excluding London -185 212 £60,000 -4.00% 341
North of England -35 61 £60,850 -18.87% 67
South East -134 42 £39,250 -37.20% 101
North West +7 40 £85,000 +21.43% 45
Midlands -42 37 £48,500 -19.83% 43
South West -81 29 £68,000 +19.83% 53
West Midlands -25 26 £48,500 -17.45% 32
East of England -35 24 £65,000 -9.72% 26
Yorkshire -47 19 £57,500 -25.81% 14
Scotland +9 13 £77,500 -4.62% 35
East Midlands -23 11 £39,194 -47.74% 11
Wales -76 3 £65,000 +8.59% 2
Northern Ireland -80 3 - - 17
North East -58 2 £90,000 - 8

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 40 (6.53%) Confluence
2 17 (2.77%) CMS
3 14 (2.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.33%) Drupal
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (8.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.82%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.82%) Moqups
6 4 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 37 (6.04%) Workfront
2 12 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.82%) Shopify
4 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.49%) iTrent
4 3 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.16%) Eikon
6 1 (0.16%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.16%) RMDS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 81 (13.21%) AWS
1 81 (13.21%) SaaS
2 51 (8.32%) iPaaS
3 50 (8.16%) Azure
4 18 (2.94%) GCP
5 15 (2.45%) Google Workspace
6 14 (2.28%) Figma
7 13 (2.12%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.79%) GitHub
8 11 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.82%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (0.82%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.82%) Zapier
12 4 (0.65%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (0.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.62%) Broadband
2 34 (5.55%) HTTP
3 11 (1.79%) Firewall
4 10 (1.63%) WAN
5 7 (1.14%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.98%) DNS
6 6 (0.98%) LAN
7 5 (0.82%) DHCP
7 5 (0.82%) Network Security
7 5 (0.82%) NX-OS
8 4 (0.65%) Multicast
8 4 (0.65%) NGN
8 4 (0.65%) SAN
9 3 (0.49%) Intranet
9 3 (0.49%) MPLS
9 3 (0.49%) VSAT
9 3 (0.49%) WLAN
10 2 (0.33%) CTI
10 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.65%) Metadata
2 12 (1.96%) Power BI
3 8 (1.31%) Big Data
4 6 (0.98%) BigQuery
4 6 (0.98%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.33%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.16%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.16%) MySQL
8 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.16%) Redis
8 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (10.93%) JIRA
2 11 (1.79%) Git
3 10 (1.63%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.31%) Selenium
5 6 (0.98%) GitLab
5 6 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.82%) Postman
7 4 (0.65%) JUnit
8 2 (0.33%) TestNG
9 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 195 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 194 (31.65%) Marketing
3 190 (31.00%) Finance
4 94 (15.33%) Law
5 91 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (14.85%) Banking
6 90 (14.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (10.28%) Presentation Skills
8 59 (9.62%) Retail
9 47 (7.67%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (5.38%) Public Sector
11 30 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (4.73%) Legal
13 26 (4.24%) Manufacturing
14 19 (3.10%) Telecoms
15 13 (2.12%) Back Office
15 13 (2.12%) Italian Language
15 13 (2.12%) Publishing
16 12 (1.96%) Electronics
17 11 (1.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 167 (27.24%) Product Manager
2 88 (14.36%) Lead
3 76 (12.40%) Senior
4 74 (12.07%) Product Owner
5 51 (8.32%) Software Engineer
6 39 (6.36%) Senior Manager
7 35 (5.71%) Development Engineer
7 35 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (5.71%) Software Development Engineer
8 30 (4.89%) Senior Product Manager
9 20 (3.26%) Product Lead
10 18 (2.94%) Consultant
11 16 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (2.45%) Technical Manager
13 14 (2.28%) Development Manager
13 14 (2.28%) Technical Engineer
14 13 (2.12%) Platform Manager
15 12 (1.96%) Support Engineer
15 12 (1.96%) Technical Support
15 12 (1.96%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.69%) REST
2 20 (3.26%) Terraform
3 15 (2.45%) Google Maps API
4 14 (2.28%) HTML
4 14 (2.28%) React
5 9 (1.47%) LangChain
6 8 (1.31%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.31%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.14%) Spring
8 6 (0.98%) Pandas
8 6 (0.98%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.98%) XML
9 5 (0.82%) CrewAI
9 5 (0.82%) CSS
9 5 (0.82%) LlamaIndex
10 4 (0.65%) LangGraph
10 4 (0.65%) Node.js
10 4 (0.65%) NumPy
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 204 (33.28%) Product Ownership
2 65 (10.60%) Social Media
3 52 (8.48%) Marketing Technology
3 52 (8.48%) Over-the-Top Content
4 39 (6.36%) Public Cloud
5 33 (5.38%) AI Agents
5 33 (5.38%) Cloud Native
6 29 (4.73%) Onboarding
7 26 (4.24%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.61%) Augmented Reality
9 15 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.45%) Virtual Reality
10 14 (2.28%) Web Conferencing
11 12 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.96%) Driving Licence
11 12 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.79%) Blog
12 11 (1.79%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.47%) Educational Technology
13 9 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.61%) Linux
2 13 (2.12%) Windows
3 4 (0.65%) Unix
4 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) CentOS
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (58.56%) Roadmaps
2 254 (41.44%) Agile
3 182 (29.69%) Product Roadmap
4 157 (25.61%) AI
5 146 (23.82%) Decision-Making
6 136 (22.19%) Product Vision
7 131 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 129 (21.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 127 (20.72%) Customer Experience
10 116 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (18.76%) User Stories
12 113 (18.43%) Product Backlog
13 93 (15.17%) Software Engineering
14 91 (14.85%) Product Strategy
15 86 (14.03%) Product Requirements
16 84 (13.70%) Analytics
17 80 (13.05%) Sprint Planning
17 80 (13.05%) User Experience
18 76 (12.40%) Project Management
19 74 (12.07%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 53 (8.65%) Java
2 40 (6.53%) Python
3 14 (2.28%) SQL
4 13 (2.12%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.12%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.79%) C++
6 7 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.98%) R
8 5 (0.82%) Bicep
9 4 (0.65%) C#
10 3 (0.49%) Bash
10 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.49%) PHP
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
12 1 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 147 (23.98%) Degree
2 40 (6.53%) Master's Degree
3 29 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 28 (4.57%) MBA
5 25 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.79%) HND
8 10 (1.63%) HNC
8 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.47%) PhD
10 8 (1.31%) CCNA
11 7 (1.14%) CSPO
11 7 (1.14%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.14%) PMP
12 6 (0.98%) MCSE
13 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.36%) QA
2 21 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.79%) SLA
4 9 (1.47%) GDPR
5 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.14%) PMO
6 4 (0.65%) PERC
7 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.33%) DICOM
7 2 (0.33%) GRC
7 2 (0.33%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.63%) Docker
2 8 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.14%) Firmware
4 6 (0.98%) vSphere
5 5 (0.82%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) KVM
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.14%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.49%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.16%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 55 (8.97%) Adobe
2 50 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.73%) Salesforce
4 27 (4.40%) Google
5 17 (2.77%) Facebook
5 17 (2.77%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.61%) Cisco
7 12 (1.96%) Workday
8 11 (1.79%) Oracle
9 8 (1.31%) VMware
10 6 (0.98%) Juniper
11 5 (0.82%) FIS
11 5 (0.82%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.49%) Aderant
13 3 (0.49%) Fujitsu
13 3 (0.49%) iManage
13 3 (0.49%) Reuters
13 3 (0.49%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.49%) Starlink